JM Inc., no hoping for snow, please! I can’t take any more talk about the potential of snow here… yesterday was my first day without shorts, that’s enough of a drastic change for now. Micheal Kuss just told me (through my TV) that there is a chance of flurries in Central Ontario tonight.

marilove @ 12
I had to look it up also, apparently it’s small crystals of water which freeze at temperatures below 32°F and fall to the ground. Having never witnessed this phenomenon, I was certain it was a bad joke, but upon a google image search, I found photos. It’s seems to be a brilliant white color, but this is due to refracting the light from the sun. Not wanting to be anywhere that has a temperature below 40°F, however, I think I shall have to avoid places with said “snow.”

I’m no snow lover, and can tolerate the cold without it, but the current season, Autumn, is my favorite.
The thought of snow on another planet is mind boggling, and I read that report this morning on the web.
Anyway, here in New England, The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a long and colder winter with more snow than usual. They don’t always hit on the mark but this prediction will prove to be true. So if we are going to have a rougher winter here, than it stands to reason you will have it as rough or worse in Central Ontario. Hey, better here than a winter on Mars. Hunker down early Lisa!

You almost answered your own question on the amount of crap books to fill your stove. Here’s a ploy you can use to acquire a winter’s worth of bible heat. Go to a hotel in the morning when people are checking out and the maids have the doors open and the beds stripped, and then just clean out the rooms of all the Gideons that are sure to be there stinking up the rooms. Of course, have a big suitcase with you as if you are a guest so as to not arouse suspicion. You can have an inexhaustible supply of bible heat, because the Gideon morons are adamant that no room will be without a bible for future warmth!

No, jokes about burning books are not funny, unless the contents of a particular book proscribes the actions similiar, but not limited to burning people or stoning them to death. A Biology book has never inferred savage treatment to people for whatever reason the act requires, and is one in which the knowledge is beneficial and enhances the understanding of the species. The bible offers no such comparable useful knowledge, but is comprised of superstitious nonsense, blatant and overt savagery in all manner of situations, and totally useless to the betterment of the human species. Burning a bible should not automatically lead to burning a Biology book (note my lower and upper case letters to denote my regard to both subjects), unless it is done by an insane adherent of the former book to the detestation of the latter. I would no more hestitate to torch a bible as I would to show what I think of moronic crackers. Anything that is done to desecrate and render ridicule to insane superstitions is worthy of my actions and respect. Burning a bible means no more significance to me than burning a pile of leaves. The residue is far more useful that the former item. And neither would I defame a useful book by placing it next to a useless bible.

Davidkevin @26
Actually, it is ok to burn biology textbooks, doesn’t bother me. It’s also ok to burn chemistry, physics, psychology, English, biology, and other textbooks. Burning textbooks doesn’t offend me… What offends me is the nonchalance which some people dismiss what is in them. Burning them doesn’t change the information, it only destroys the book.

cactusren @33, I know what CO2 is, what it’s called when frozen, and that it makes up much of the polar regions, thank you, but in the article, it says “‘What this is telling us is that water does rise from the ground to the atmosphere and then precipitates down,’ he said. ‘So there is a hydrological cycle on Mars, and now other experts will study the data and try to determine what it all means.'”

2029. A new star grows in the Martian sky. Riding a flame of incandescent gas, a fragile little landing craft touches down on a plain of iron oxide dust. On its side, in brilliant blue, are the words UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: ARES ONE.

Two spacesuited figures disembark, carrying a flag. They stand for a moment, gazing out at the frozen terrain of Kasei Vallis, overcome by the magnitude of their historical achievement.

And as I have expressed several times on this site, we should have been on Mars years ago to enact that scenario if we were not occupied with all the violent episodes and religious crap here on Earth. Can you imagine standing there during a snowfall, on another planet? Enthralls the hell out of me!